The area continues to be among the nations most integrated. I lived on W 73rd b/ Columbus & CPW from 1974-1987 and saw SO many changes the gentrification got to be too much, so I moved up to 108th Street. A little more than a decade later, my sisters shared an apartment in a midrise next door to what had been Lyfords brownstone. Maybe before you retired you might have offered a no-credit seminar on at-large behavior and minding ones own business. It all started at Goddard Riverside and then onto West Side Montessori. Email me if you want to answer a few questions. Once, after I was punched, my wallet stolen, my glasses (!) Particularly the buffalo wings, which are some of the best in the city. However, it was still very nice and middle/ upper-middle class between broadway and riverside drive, at least up to about 90th street. Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. I grew up on riverside drive at 104 street. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. West of Broadway was less rough, but Broadway was Pay-A-Broadway after 9pm as if there was city-approved zoning for street walkers after 9. woolworths was on the high 60s on amsterdam just south of the jewish temple that is still there. Pretty good ice cream place in the early 80s. You want to watch sports with some friends, and maybe share a couple pitchers of beer - ideally something other than Hoegaarden or Goose Island. The 40,000 Jews who lived there in 1960 were primarily secular and in flight from their faith. Get a table or some bar seats at Dive Bar, a dimly-lit spot with over 30 beers on tap (most of which are available by the glass, growler, and pitcher). Homeless? Unfortunately, mom and pop stores have closed. But over the past 20 years in particular, the Upper West Side has turned into the most affluent shtetl the world has ever seen. So much history of the Upper West Side, resided in the strengths and ideas of its working class citizens. My second date with him was at The Copper (? My children, who are very young, will know, as my sisters and I did, the oddity of being both entirely privileged and yet significantly poorer than most of their classmates and friends. There was a pastry cafe with tables up in a little loft where the swatch store is now on 72 and Columbus. East of Broadway was a tough old neighborhood. I was born and raised on same block, in same building since 1969. This place also does Happy Hour deals every day until 8pm, including half off the whole bar on weekdays and half off beers on weekends. Upper East Side. To hell with nostalgia. Grew up in Lincoln Towers in the 70s and 80s. Retro what does it mean? The whole space is about the size of a subway car, though, so dont bring a big group. No one rememers Charevari, they had a couple of stores, Al buen gusto, Merit Farms, Columbia Savings bank, El Farro, Columbia Savings, the lending library and card shop that is now Giacommos, Gristedies, Bartons Candy Store, the movie theater on Bway between 72-73. Although the company liquidated in 1991, there are a handful of independently owned stores left around the United States. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. 2 All-American Burger Kai L./Yelp The citys population shrank by nearly a million people between 1960 and 1980, with 300,000 gone from Manhattan over the course of those 20 years. But not a beer that all your friends have heard of. I recall the Woolworth on 98th st, with its food counter and spinning stools, their comfy turquoise cushions and steel bases bolted to the checkered tile floor. Vague memory of the window and lady on 83rd Street. Its about equal parts bar, restaurant, and lounge - and it looks sort of like a place where lawyers would hang out on a Friday night in a 90s sitcom. If you want to pay college prices for that pitcher of Shock Top, come during Happy Hour (until 8pm every day). And the biggest, most heartbreaking loss la fortuna, hangout of John and yoko. POWERED BY. If their children were found playing on the street unsupervised that would warrant a call to 311 or Child Protective Services. Long gone is the divine Eclair Bakery on W. 72nd St. and the Royale. For the reclamation of the neighborhood proved to have a spiritual component as well. @Janet, I agree. Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart. It's China Fun now? Bars/clubs 1980's Show more . Stephen Hanson's uptown "Chinese" fantasy, which he bravely launched on the un-trendy Upper West Side, was the big box that spawned all of the city's pan-Asian giants. I was mugged the one time I walked from Broadway and 80th to Columbus and 80th because I crossed Amsterdam Ave. and went east on the block. I have lots of memories of specific shops, and just as many holes in my memory! was racking my brain trying to come up with the name of the pub/restaurant on west side of Columbus b/ 70th & 71st when I came upon your posting. Im coming into this conversation very late but I have lived in this neighborhood all my life.since 1953. I love all the varying opinions and experiences. I loved that they were open 24 hrs. I came to NYC for the first time in 1979. Thanks for posting this article. About fifty of us stood across the street and watched, as though we were attending a wake. Im so please that Calle Ocho (once around the corner on Columbus) has become attached to the hotel; that Zingones , the terrific and friendly mom & pop grocery store on Columbus btw 82 & 83 is still in business and doing better than ever; that Rose Liquor still is thriving one block down with the flower shop next door now run by the daughter of the man I used to buy my flowers from, and that the newsstand at the corner of Columbus and 81 is till run by my friend from Pakistan, who used to call his family to find out when my eccentric English husband used to ask him Whats the weather today in Karachi? I still run into my neighbors on the street, and sure, a lot has changed, but the heart of the neighborhood and many of the characters are still there! They are socializing, flirting, establishing their creds in a nice middle-class neighborhood BEFORE they have to get on that subway once again and go home to a neighborhood which may or may not be as sparkly-shiny as the UWS and, for anyone between 12 and 25, very possibly gang-ridden and dangerous. The tacos are supplemented with other obvious sports bar snacks, including corn on the cob, guac and chips, flautas, plus burritos, quesadillas, and tortas. Now Im in the 90s. It went badly. How Biden Intends to Misuse the CHIPS Act, About that African-American Studies Course. There was a reason Verdi park was called Needle Park. Nostalgia can be a treacherous mistress, because she glamorizes the past and downgrades the present in a way that threatens to make them both intolerable. Of course I have lived elsewhere, including the Adirondacks (for college), the Catskills (for work with Goddard-Riverside Community Center residential summer camps) and Dallas, TX for work. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) Store signage at New York Times Square, around 1985. So no matter what type of place youre looking for, use this guide the next time you go out on the Upper West Side. Vinnys! I have lived on 111 street since 1975. Since I live only a mile from where I was born and raised, with only slight changes to the visual landscape, I find myself constantly under nostalgias threat. Some memories: I've always been a pretty good cook, and I could make these very good dinners in this tiny kitchen. 29 Second Ave. (between 1st & 2nd St.) Bear Bar (west side) 2156 Broadway (between 74th & 75th St.) Beer Hall. When I moved to West 83rd Street, pushers hid their crack vials in the planters outside the building I lived in. Please. Why? Named after the famous landmark apartment building nearby, The Dakota Bar possesses a vibrant energy all of its' own. I dont think the email in the article works. Im trying to remember the name of the bar/restaurant that opened in the late 70s/1980 on the corner of 79th and Columbus with the funeral parlor next door (in the space where Laura Ashley once was located) and in the old building before the skyscraper apartment building went up. The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. It's interesting to watch the shifts in neighborhoods. In the late 1980s, many of New York's megaclubs closed down as a result of the economic crash of 1987. In 1998, that number had dropped to 2,000; last year, in 2009, only 987 felonies were committed there. and the Pyramid Club (101 Ave. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. An indifferent French restaurant occupies the space that once housed the record store where I bought my first 45 rpm disc of the Cowsills singing the title song from Hair, and standing in front of it I split into two, the 49-year-old in the present and the seven-year-old in the past crossing its portal with a little brown paper bag in hand, excited beyond measure to get its contents home to place the needle on the 45s ridge and watch it slide into the first groove, the sound of the scratches giving way to the opening blast of the Cowsills five-part harmony. I worked at Sweet Asylum in the early 80s and have tons of memories about the old neighborhood: everything from the charred remains of Santeria rituals on the big rock ACROSS from the 79th st. RSD playground to routinely getting mugged. Mostly, its just a nice little bar with brick walls and a short menu of snacks, and its a good spot for a date or a low-key cocktail after work. . People were afraid to ride the graffiti-streaked, crime soaked subways. This seasonal (May-October) outdoor bar has a bunch of umbrella-covered tables that might make you think youre in Madison Square Park, except for the fact that you can see the Hudson River and New Jersey. I lived on the UWS from 1972-1994: 85/WEA, 79/Columbus, 82/Amsterdam, several other addresses. Raised on 104th. We dont mean this as an insult to the land above 59th Street, but The Owls Tail is the sort of place you expect to find downtown. My building was surrounded by SROs; one on 92nd btwn Riverside and West End, one directly across the street from us and one on 92nd btwn Broadway and Amsterdam. Columbia university kept the neighborhood more desirable. Isnt the least bit fancy, but it also doesnt smell bad, and they even have some books you can read while you drink. (Photo by Steven Siegel) Demolition began later that decade, which displaced the homeless who had by that point found shelter on the elevated roadway. My building is very family oriented. I lived on 79th street from 1976 to 2011 in the rent-stabilized apartment I grew up in, and over that time I have seen the neighborhood change drastically. Cocktails are pricey ($12-16) but it's just too fun to miss. She made awesome cookies with whole wheat flour. And every effort to cure them through large-scale government action only made matters worse, in one of the most potent demonstrations of the law of unintended consequences. No more butcher, fish store, local drugstore, bakery, candy store, DVD rentals. Booked 152 times today. Its a good spot to eat some bangers and mash, and its perfect for when you want to sit on a barstool and watch sports with a Guinness. Like Caledonia, the Hamilton has a very serious whiskey selection - although the focus here is more on American whiskey. A fellow life-long UWSer and Harvard doctoral student. 12 Lost Gay Bars of New York City Michael Ryan. Plus, the long, all-French wine list has over 50 options available by the glass, and you can even try things in flights of three or five glasses. And in part it was due to the difficulty the media had, even in the wake of the 1960s, reporting on the details of the crime (the New York Times, in every one of the fiveonly five!articles it published on the case, referred vaguely to sexual mutilation). The UWS was terrible then. I love being able to walk to Central Park and be greeted by many people I have met over the years. 4) Someone else mentioned it, but Ill second a nod to Teachers and Teachers, Too. Rescued Estates, before the "Crazy Landlord" rented the place to The Bean coffee shop. And "Mambo Mouth" in the days before STOMP took over the Orpheum Theater on 2nd and 7th. For an interesting look at our neighborhood,check out the Goodbye Girl on netflix. Barbara, that was Sarabeths Kitchen on Amsterdam between 82nd and 83rd. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland [nedrlnt] ()), informally Holland, is a country located in northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.It is the largest of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. the block just south of where mc donalds is. From melees to muggings to serial killers to a spiritual revival. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Source. But west end was great, and also 86th was great all the way over to the park. The Upper West Side of Manhattan is sandwiched in between Riverside Park to the west & Central Park to the east. jeannine.j@gmail.com. if youre going to criticize Historian, maybe it would be for being snarky. I lived at 219 W 81st (corner of Broadway) from 1962 to 1967, when we moved to Queens because the neighborhood was becoming too dangerous! We also went to the park alone which kids nowadays hardly ever do. so i guess we are 3 black kettles since i am being pretty snarky, too. Also if you remember what year the Woolworths on 79th and Broadway closed let me know. The SROS were filled with mentally ill people. They had delicious burgers. A fine and forgotten 1975 book by Barbara Gelb called On the Track of Murder it reads like a nonfiction version of Ed McBain's glorious 49-year series of police procedurals about the 87thPrecinct, a lightly disguised version of the real-life 24th Precinct on the Upper West Sidetells the story of the homicide squad formed to catch Charlie This is a consistently crowded restaurant on the Upper East Side that works for everything from date nights to fun group dinners, but the separate bar area up front is also useful when you're just looking for drinks. John was a amazing teacher and he taught me to love learning! At about the size of a one-bedroom apartment, this bar is a great place to catch any game, especially the Super Bowl! I think its just human nature. I worked from 1972-77 at various Cake Masters locations from 72nd Street to 99th Street. Tuesday's - you could get a rack of ribs, big salad with lots of fresh blue cheese, and a baked potato for $9.99. I remember Charivari well. The Nickel Bar all the pre-AIDS era gay bars that made the UWS a gay mecca to rival the Village, and that drew lots of interracial couples to move in and renovate buildings. Not how it was for me, my friends, and their families. Theres a NY Times article published on June 8, 1979 call Discovering the Pleasures of Columbus Avenue Published a couple of months before I moved to Columbus and 74th where I am now. McGlades, a tavern across from ABC, it's a Starbucks now. I remember The Broadway Nut Shop, outside of which I shook hands with Bobby Kennedy while he was campaigning for Abe Beame in 1965, Steinbergs Dairy Restaurant, next to Irvings Candy store, the Pizza parlor and Serooties? Im trying to write it into a book, and I cannot find anything about it anywhere. If youre with a few friends near the northern end of the Upper West Side, and youre looking for a very normal bar where you can hang out for any length of time while you have some inexpensive drinks, go to Bobs Your Uncle. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) A man wearing a placard on Times Square, around 1980. Great projecthope it went well or is going well. I finally made the right connection when I discovered several glass ampules and hypodermic needles. I remember Mindys and the Japanese store and Francess Hats and the Chinese Restaurant and Jays Stationary and Cake Masters and Eclairs and the Chess Room and the pet store between Columbus and Broadway on 72nd street. I would recommend the author talk to some parents at the local schools to get a sense for the community now. You can see the dots on the map of Manhattan, and the peak is still in the 1980s in terms of the most bars. But I had to wear my old prescriptions and couldnt see very well. jeannine.j@gmail.com. Sometimes for the food. Bar in Upper West Side Add to myNY One of the smaller venues on our list is Bodega 88. 1. e's Bar 511 Amsterdam Ave., nr. The menu features mini food items, perfect for bar munchies, as well as delightful dinner options. From our award-winning Vine Burger to our Cobb Salad, Roasted Cornish Hen, Seafood and Steaks, Madison & Vine satisfies the cravings of the city's most discerning diners. Was the place called Amsterdam. They were mugged in the lobby one night after taking a taxi home from our apartment 15 blocks away. What other stores or restaurants have closed that you miss? Hi Life Bar & Grill. First of all, the TV situation here is pretty great - each booth has its own screen, and then there are multiple big screens over the bar. But in 1961, 84th Street was a nightmare, and something had to be done. What they will not have to learn, as my sisters and I and our wealthier friends did, is how to accommodate and make normal an ever-present sense of everyday menace. They also have jello shots, so your night here can either be very tame or full of colorful, gelatinous alcohol. There was also one above 100th Street that closed in the mid 90s. Kyle: When I moved here, the hotspot was 8 th Avenue between 14 th and 23rd. In 1983, a sociologist named Richard Shafer told the New York Times, The West Side is a neighborhood that always seems to embarrass the fashionable. Its most attractive streets were and are no match architecturally or decoratively for the boulevards of the East Side, Fifth and Park Avenues. I moved up here in 1977. I was also hailed from second story windows in Times Square by topless prostitutes. A rush hour scene at the New York City subway. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Columbus Avenue in the 70's underwent an impressively upscale retail . Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . I always saw it as culturally vital and architecturally beautiful. the bar next to them. I see this constantly in the rude & dismissive behavior of folks on the street, in the new stores, especially towards the older folks. Amazing roast chicken at Amsterdams. I was mugged four times before I was 14. I can just smell the place writing about it. 80s Night Clubs in New York City, NY About Search Results Sort: Default All BBB Rated A+/A Coupons View all businesses that are OPEN 24 Hours 1. What about doing a simple Lexis-Nexis search? It no longer does. Sure, it isnt the fanciest bar in the world, and if you order a sazerac here, you might get a weird look - but its a nice little place to hang out with a beer, and theres a sitting area in the back with a couch and some armchairs. Before wine bars, bank branches, and sushi restaurants took over the East Village, there were hole-in-the-wall clubs like 8BC, a gallery and performance space on Eighth Street between Avenues B and C. Opened in 1983, the place was over by the end of 1985. In the photo, the corner shop on 73rd was an upholstery shop, and aside from the (not so good) pizza shop, I cant remember any other store on that side of the street as being memorable. A least some or all of my family lived on the Upper West Side from the 1930s to the mid 1980s. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. 1. The Upper West Side, or UWS as it is often abbreviated, is a large neighborhood or series of smaller adjacent neighborhoods in northern Manhattan, extending from 59 th Street northward to 110 th Street, with Central Park to the east and the Hudson River to the west. They have over 30 beers on tap, many of which are unusual options from relatively small domestic and international breweries, and the space tends to fill up with big groups drinking and sharing bar food. Food City was also where I dreamt of having my first jobs first as bagger, then aspiring to cashier. Twice a week I would go out back (after a few beer bottles whizzed past my head I wore my tin hat from World War II) and shovel up three or four days accumulation of chicken bones, pieces of rancid fowl, chop bones, half-empty cans of beans and other vegetables, eggshells, bags full of fat, condoms, and bloody bandages, which I at first mistakenly thought were battle dressings for the victims of fights I had been hearing. The Cherry Restaurant on Columbus Ave. on the corner of 76th St., where the Chase Bank is now, was owned and staffed by Japanese people. 7388 reviews. We arent quite sure what Dakota Bar is trying to be, but its a useful place to know about if you ever need to get a cocktail with some acquaintances near Lincoln Center. And it was where I chose to live when I moved to Manhattan from Canarsie in 1972. The Upper West Side is a great place to live: beautiful prewar buildings, Central Park to one side and Riverside Park to the other, Zabar's.It's one of the most popular residential areas of Manhattan and it's also a hotbed for celebrities. 3) Back in the 80s, H & H Bagels (well known demise some years ago) had lines out the door, and nicer prices for their delicious bagels. Just be aware that the whole place might smell like truffles, since they serve various truffle- and non-truffle-related snacks. Sarabeth was a friend and I too loved her pastries and coffee. 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